A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and ModernCassell publishing Company, 1891 - Počet stran: 644 |
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... object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual mir- acles rising up to its view .-- Addison , Those who are formed to win general ad- miration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness ...
... object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual mir- acles rising up to its view .-- Addison , Those who are formed to win general ad- miration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness ...
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... object , and compels us to consider it in all its relations . It will not suffer us to be superficial.- Burke . Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity ; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a ...
... object , and compels us to consider it in all its relations . It will not suffer us to be superficial.- Burke . Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity ; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a ...
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... objects of our detestation , and smaller faults of our pity , but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous . - Fielding . We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have , as by those we affect to have ...
... objects of our detestation , and smaller faults of our pity , but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous . - Fielding . We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have , as by those we affect to have ...
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... object too much , consult too long , adventure too little , repent too soon , and seldom drive business home to the full period , but content themselves with a me- diocrity of success . - Bacon . As we grow old we become both more ...
... object too much , consult too long , adventure too little , repent too soon , and seldom drive business home to the full period , but content themselves with a me- diocrity of success . - Bacon . As we grow old we become both more ...
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... object that the second of these was a murderer , I desire him to consider that as soon as he was so , he quitted our profes- sion , and turned builder . - Cowley . In a moral point of view , the life of the agriculturist is the most ...
... object that the second of these was a murderer , I desire him to consider that as soon as he was so , he quitted our profes- sion , and turned builder . - Cowley . In a moral point of view , the life of the agriculturist is the most ...
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